Koidanovo Ghetto

The Koidanovo Ghetto was a Jewish ghetto in the Belarusian town of Dzyarzhynsk that existed in late 1941 during World War II. Jews first settled in Koidanovo in 1833 when a Hasidic dynasty settled there, and the town had a Jewish population of 3,156 in 1897, making up the majority of the populace. On 21 October 1941, the Lithuanian auxiliary police massacred 1,900 Jews on the orders of Walter Braemer, and thousands more were executed by the Einsatzgruppen in June 1942.